Day 13 - Save the bounty hunter, save the galaxy!

[vilakins]

Today's entry for the naarmamo National Art Making Month challenge is a comic-book style pic drawn for the Heroes / Blake's 7 crossover story I'm writing for the Hirothon. It's meant to be a page from the SF comic Hiro finds and reads.

Save the bounty hunter, save the galaxy!



My NaArMaMo 2007 Gallery is here.

Comments

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

Atmospheric stuff! What software are you using?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

PhotoShop Elements 2 (the cut down el cheapo version of PS) and the GIMP; each one has its strengths.

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

Have you tried inkscape? It's to Illustrator what gimp is to Photoshop, and there are Mac and Windows versions. It seems a little odd to use at first, but there are three tutorials that take you through all essentials, and then you wonder how you ever coped without it, or at least I did.

There's a nice trick you can do for the comic book ink effect that you might enjoy. You draw the outline of your image in Gimp/photoshop, then import it in Inkscape. There's a tool in Inkscape that converts raster images into vector ones---alternatively you could use Autotrace directly, which inkscape incorporates to do this. If you fiddle around with the thresholds as you convert, you can get very smooth-looking inked-type lines---and since they are vectors you can resize the image without artifacts. And you can then export to a raster image to colour and further edit in Gimp etc.

http://www.inkscape.org/
http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! I'll have to check that out and play with it when I get the time. :-D

I've just got home, it's 10:30pm, and I have to draw something for today. This month is like that. [whimper]

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

Your dedication (together with your output) is admirable!

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look so good for the bounty hunter, unless he has the same powers as the cheerleader.

(random thought: Cheerleader should get together with Captain Jack and form a support group for The Apparently Immortal)

Back on topic :) That's a very good pic - just like a comic/graphic novel version of Gauda Prime. I love the softness of the markings on the floor in contrast to the bold colours and outlines of the figures.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What Hiro has to do is change that future. :-)

Cheerleader should get together with Captain Jack and form a support group for The Apparently Immortal)

That is such a good idea, I'm sure someone's written that crossover. :-)

Thank you!

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

great tagline...that bit of Avon came out well too, maybe Hiro can save Avon...from himself, while he's at it...

also love the icon of Hiro

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm not sure what's happening in the story till I write it. :-P

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like. And I'm very intrigued to read this story when the time comes, too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll so have to get round to that!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Hey that is great, would love to read the comic but will settle for the story when it comes out.
Is it just me or does Blake younger dead?

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I find that's the trouble with comics, everyone looks younger. Do you remember the Star Trek animated series? They all looked ridiculously young.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Er would it be admitting my age if I said Yes.
Spock looked especially young in one episode!

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Er would it be admitting my age if I said Yes.

Perhaps you watched a later repeat. :-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Of course that's it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I bever saw it (or even heard of it till recently) but we bought the DVD set this year! I'll have to watch it. astrogirl2 said it was way better than it had any right to be. :-)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

The one thing they tried to do with the animation which they couldn't do with actors is proper aliens. Uhura's opposite number was a cat, and Sulu's had three arms.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

The only thing they couldn't get right was the walking and running bits.
I wonder if anyone's considering doing a "new" version using cgi?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

A cat! Very cool. I'll have to put that on the top of the stack. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or does Blake [look] younger dead?

It's probably the simplification of the comic book style, and my drawing being pretty basic. :-)